The 5-week Field-Industry Work Segment (FIWS), which follows the first term, is designed to give students a hands-on experience of the grassroots realities in a range of sectors – tea, coffee, agribusiness, agri-input, spices, rubber, floriculture and biotechnology. During this segment the students are provided direct exposure to the grassroots realities of plantations, focusing on production related issues. The students get to learn about the concerns and issues at the beginning of the value chain in the agribusiness and plantation sectors. This is an essential element of the “grounded praxis” approach to their education.
Field Industry Work Segment
During this segment for 20 days the students visit in groups to various estates and agri-business processing centres of different organizations and write a report based on experiential learning from the visit. The next phase of 15 days is for individual visits and interactions with various organizations based on student’s individual interest.
The list of organizations are as follows:
- Bharat Biotech International Ltd.
- Biocon
- Cadbury Processing Unit
- Coca Cola Manufacturing Unit
- Cochin Spices Pvt. Ltd.
- Heritage Foods India Ltd.
- Indian Tea Trading Association
- KINFR Food Park
- Krishak Bharati Cooperative Ltd.
- Maagrita Exports Ltd.
- Namdari Fresh
- Raaj Classic Foods Godrej Agrovet India Ltd.
- Rubber Research Institute of India
- Southern Petro Chemical Industries Co-operation Ltd. (SPIC)
- Sriram Coconut Processing Industry
- Synthite industrial Chemicals Ltd.
- Tata Coffee Ltd.
- Tata Tea Ltd.
- UPASI KVK
